MC: I hope so. [laughs] I hope it doesn’t take me with it. I feel like we’ve done a lot of things over the years, way before things got to this, to put ourselves in a position where we don’t have to go down with the ship. We’ve never really been part of that crew anyway. They’ll survive. They’ll keep manufacturing what they can manufacture until they figure out how to do something else. It has changed. This thing we’re talking about here – Rock Band – and the way people find and get exposed to and buy music, it’s gone totally left field from what it used to be. You don’t even know where it’s going to pop up anymore. It’s not as simple or cut and dried, and it’s not an industry or market that can be cornered by any one entity. It’s a lot more wide open and more different people with different ideas. I think the record industry and the auto industry and all these other industries that are crapping their pants, it’s not the economy – it’s being stuck in a business model that hasn’t been relevant since about 1989. It’s a failure to adapt."

"So this is why Jason Isbell didn't want to stick with the Drive-By Truckers, feeling like Joe Walsh: Because he's as confident and magnetic a frontman as he is prolific and able a songwriter."

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Muscle Shoals Sound

Travis Wammack's son, Monkey, who, if memory serves me, was once the touring drummer for Little Richard, once paid me one of the highest complements I've ever received.

I was still in grad school so my voice was very trained and I'd come home for a visit. A local joint was doing some karaoke and I decided to jump on stage to do my pantie dropping version of Moon Dance by Van Morrison.

After I finished, Monkey pulled me aside and said that that was the best version of that song he'd heard in a long time.

So, yeah, I use to could sing, but my voice is crap now.

Nice memory to have, though.

"In this video clip, guitarist Travis Wammack remembers teaming with legendary music producer Rick Hall and playing guitar for American music legends Aretha Franklin, Paul Anka, The Righteous Brothers and more."

"LONDON — The city of Liverpool already has a Beatles museum and its airport is named after John Lennon. Now a local university says it rolling out a graduate program entirely devoted to the Fab Four."

"In 2008 Brooklyn singer songwriter Alina Simone released a passionate and compelling album of modern Russian folk covers that was one of the year’s best. Now she has turned her attention a little closer to home and is completing a new album of her own material in English (which is previewed below) — but not before she dabbles a bit by playing a Britney Spears cover or two. I asked her about all this and found the line from Yanka Dyagileva to Britney is shorter than you might think."